As all the Psykers dissolved in psychic flames, their lingering psychic ashes were drawn out and released. The Daemons that had poured into the hull were erased by the flames as well, vanishing without a trace along with part of the ship.
Only when the Psychic Crystal had been drained dry and crumbled did the raging flames finally die out completely.
The half of the Sword of the Void trapped in the Warp was violently squeezed out through the Veil, as though it had been rejected.
Psychic power had destroyed everything.
Although the outer hull did not appear badly damaged, the ship's interior had become a complete wreck.
The laws of physics, twisted by psychic power, had rendered the ship's gravitational balancing systems inoperative.
Countless massive metal bodies formed by matter's own gravity floated within the hull, attracting one another.
The ship's outer shell was slowly disintegrating.
The vast numbers of mechanical troops inside had long since been crushed into a single mass by gravitational collapse.
Only the Destroyer Robots and the three Punisher Titans remained unharmed.
Equipped with gravity manipulation devices, these machines could adjust gravity's effects on themselves, escaping the fate of being drawn together by uncontrolled gravity and compressed into metal spheres.
The only saving grace was that the Antimatter Energy Core, distorted by psychic power, had likewise lost the physical laws governing it.
Even when it completely ceased reacting, no world-shattering explosion occurred.
Otherwise, a sizable black hole might have appeared on the Imperium's frontier.
Although Iax had anticipated that accidents might occur during testing, the successive failures still forced him to reconsider whether continued investment in force weapons was worthwhile.
The Sword of the Void's condition had become irreversible. The Mechanicus Ship fleet previously responsible for rebuilding it simply retrieved the three Punisher Titans and